Top Suicide Articles

By Robin Abcarian
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| Mar 19, 2014
| 5:50 PM

BERKELEY – Something was definitely amiss when I returned to my hotel Tuesday afternoon after an interview on the UC Berkeley campus.
At least three big firetrucks were blocking the street in front of the Berkeley City Club, a historic women&...

The gunman who fatally shot a Mendocino County sheriff's deputy Wednesday north of Fort Bragg, Calif., did not take his own life after the crime spree that began in Oregon but was instead mortally wounded when a police officer opened fire during the...

In 1993, I persuaded the Tribune's then-arts editor to send me to Columbia, Mo., to report on the first show in almost 20 years of a cult band that loomed huge for those of us under its spell. Two University of Missouri undergrads had phoned the ever-...

The Seattle Police Department has strongly denied reports claiming local law enforcement officials have re-opened the investigation into the death of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain.
A representative for Seattle PD told Variety that an inhouse cold...

It may not be art, but it's certainly going to be one of the most macabre objects ever shown in an art gallery: the Thanatron, the intravenous drip device that Dr. Jack Kevorkian invented to shuffle his clients off this mortal coil via assisted suicide,...

Two decades after Kurt Cobain's suicide, the Seattle police department has released new photos of the scene where the Nirvana singer took his own life.
The two images show an array of what appears to be drug paraphernalia (including needles and a spoon)...

This spring, a group of college students will go about their usual campus routines, but with a voice only they can hear calling them names and making other distracting, disturbing sounds.
In their case, the voice will come from a recording playing...

Smart, dedicated and eager, Officer Robert German could have opted to join a large Central Florida police department and climb the ranks.
But German, 31, loved the little southwest Orange County town of Windermere. He wanted to make a difference in...

At first glance, it looked like another damaging blunder for Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
She shut down a corruption investigation of fellow Democrats in Philadelphia — four current legislators and a former judge — even...